impolitic

[ US /ˌɪmpɔˈɫɪˌtɪk/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpəlˈɪtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not politic
    an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue
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How To Use impolitic In A Sentence

  • Maybe your were wrong on the facts or maybe what you said was impolitic, but you got a word of correction from a spouse, or boss, or friend.
  • That extreme, impolitic candor was one of the characteristics that made Rice a perfect rebel and a considerably less perfect leader.
  • Although, if I were "impolitical," I probably wouldn't have used the phrase "fresh meat. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Of course it might be impolitic to antagonize these groups.
  • an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue
  • But he objected to something more elemental, and less subject to rehabilitation, than the doctor's impolitic opinion about the caucuses.
  • It would have been impolitic to refuse his offer.
  • The secretary of defense had evidently concluded that to agree to the reinforcements would be impolitic.
  • In fact it sometimes seemed as if the hosts feared that an impolitic remark might trigger World War III.
  • It was considered impolitic of him to spend too much time with the party radicals.
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